EXHIBITION’S PARTICIPANTS

Rogier Arents

Rogier Arents

Rogier Arents (1987) is a designer and graphic artist based in Rotterdam. Through interdisciplinary collaboration he seeks artistic ways to transfer knowledge and embed newly-developed technologies within society.
Kristians Brekte

Kristians Brekte

Kristians Brekte (1981) is an artist whose creative output is characterised by a specifically refined visual language with references to Goth and black metal subcultures, street art, religion, art history and pop culture. He obtained an MA in stage design at the Art Academy of Latvia (2009). Currently he is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Audio-Visual Media Art, as well as Head of the Department of Environmental Art in the Faculty of Design; he also works as a scenographer. Brekte has been participating in exhibitions since 2003. The main themes of the artist's works are death, religion and sex, which, reminiscent of the message and aesthetic appearance of the genre of vanitas, are presented through painting, watercolour, photography and installation as well as the format of provocative slogans and unauthorised actions. His works are included in the catalogue Younger Than Jesus (2009) released by the British publisher Phaidon, and are held in the Latvian National Museum of Art as well as private collections in Latvia and abroad.
Uldis Briedis

Uldis Briedis

Uldis Briedis (1940) is well-known as a long-time photographer for the newspaper Diena. During the Soviet period he worked as a photojournalist for the newspaper Padomju Jaunatne, as well as the Liepāja newspapers Komunists and Ļeņina Ceļš. Over almost fifty years of active work as a photographer his work has been published countless times in many press publications. On several occasions he was arrested while carrying out his work. Uldis Briedis’ name is closely associated with the most significant achievements of photojournalism in Latvia in the second half of the 20th century. He has received several awards, more than once has been recognised as Best Press Photographer (1984 and 1988), and was awarded the Prize of the Latvian Journalists’ Union (1988). In 2010, Neputns publishing house released the book Time Hunter, dedicated to the artist and compiled by Laima Slava. In 2011, he was awarded the Order of the Three Stars.
Juno Calypso

Juno Calypso

Juno Calypso (1989) is a London-born artist working with photography, moving image and installation. Juno graduated from London College of Communication in 2012. While at university Juno began a series of self-portraits disguised as a fictional character named Joyce, secretly photographing herself at her grandmother’s house or in bedrooms rented online. Both the Joyce and The Honeymoon projects have earned several awards including the British Journal of Photography International Award, and Foam Museums 2016 Talent award. Juno`s work has been exhibited internationally, with shows in New York, South Korea, Mexico, Canada and China. Juno’s work has featured in various publications including Vogue Italia, TIME, The Guardian, Paper, i-D, Dazed & Confused, The Sunday Times, The Independent and VICE.
Antoine Catala

Antoine Catala

Antoine Catala (1975) studied mathematics and art. He currently lives in New York. Catala is interested in how humans communicate and how new communication technologies affect language. In his show titled I See Catastrophes Ahead, 47 Canal, NY (2012) all the works spelt out part of the exhibition title. For instance, there was a hologram sculpture of “cat”, one of an “ass” and a complex pneumatic apparatus for “trophies” –cat-ass- trophies. His installation Image Families at UKS, Oslo in 2013 saw drones carrying words hovering around the exhibition venue. His installation Distant Feel at the last New Museum Triennial, NY, 2015, rendered a logo conceived by a New York ad agency Catala contracted to promote ‘efficient empathy’ out of a living corals, turning the inert logo into a biological entity. Catala has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, New York, New Museum, New York, Sculpture Center, New York, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria, MACLyon, Lyon, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, Fridericianum, Kassel, MoMA PS 1, New York, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, among other institutions and galleries.
Kate Cooper

Kate Cooper

Kate Cooper (1984) lives and works in London and Amsterdam. She is the director and co-founder of the London based, artist-led organisation Auto Italia and was recently a resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Cooper was the recipient of the BEN Prize for Emerging Talent, B3 Biennial of the Moving Images, Frankfurt (2015) and the Schering Stiftung Art Award, where she presented her first solo exhibition Rigged at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014). Selected group exhibitions include: Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, ICA, Boston; Kills 99.9% of Bacteria, CCA Derry, Londonderry (both 2018); Suspended Animation, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Commercial Break, Public Art Fund; The Noise of Being, Sonic Arts, Amsterdam; Hard to Explain, Future Gallery, Berlin (all 2017); Insomnia, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Spending Quality Time With My Quantified Self, TENT, Rotterdam; The Elegance of an Empty Room, Kunstverein in Hamburg; Public, Private, Secret, International Centre of Photography, New York; Glamour, CAG, Connecticut; Secret Surface, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; The Long Progress Bar, Lighthouse, Brighton (all 2016).
Inga Erdmane

Inga Erdmane

Inga Erdmane (1973) in her works looks at the relationship between society and the individual, documenting actual events and offering their interpretation in installations, video, photographs and photobooks. The artist`s interest in systems and structures is often directed at the margins where individuals enter the so-called grey zones. Erdmane graduated from the Department of Photography at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and studied psychology in Riga. She had a solo exhibition I Agree I Have Blundered. Criminalcase No 15890013311 at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (2013), and has taken part in group exhibitions in Latvia and abroad, including INexactly THIS, as part of the Kunstvlaai festival in Amsterdam, The Rencontres d’Arles (2012), Rauma Biennale Balticum 2014 and the contemporary art festival Survival Kit 6 (2014) in Riga. She has self-published six books and has participated in a number of book fairs and exhibitions in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Lithuania, Guatemala and elsewhere.
GolfClayderman

GolfClayderman

GolfClayderman (Margrieta Griestiņa (1991); Aksels Bruks (1992)), an unlimited company concerned with art and sport, was established relatively recently and announced itself in 2016 with the fashion show Invisible Field at 427 Gallery. Artists Griestiņa and Bruks have sustained the creative practice of this unorthodox collective with performances, music shows, improvised TV programmes and multidisciplinary events in Latvia as well as abroad. In 2017 GolfClayderman together with seven other emerging Latvian artists represented the country at the JCE Contemporary Art Biennale. Later that year, GolfClayderman travelled to Estonia with Margrieta Griestiņa’s solo show Daggy’s last selfie at Tartu Art House. The future of this collective remains hazy, albeit without a doubt - promising and enticing. Friendship, love and lust are inexhaustible values. Let’s go!
Ivars Grāvlejs

Ivars Grāvlejs

Ivars Grāvlejs (1979) is an artist whose work is characterised by an irreverent approach in dadaistically performative execution that is worthy of a trickster. With raw irony and an uncompromising attitude, Grāvlejs` conceptual and often socio-critical projects make familiar things and situations appear in a cardinally different perspective. The media most frequently used by the artist are photography and video, yet archival materials, installations, environmental objects and unauthorised actions often become significant formal components of the works. In 2007 he earned a Master`s degree from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) and currently teaches photography in Brno as well as doctoral programmes in Prague and Bratislava. He has held more than 40 personal exhibitions and has taken part in countless group exhibitions, including Viewfinders. Contemporary Baltic and Nordic Photography (2014) in Riga and Performing for the Camera (2016) at Tate Modern, London. In 2015, the British publishers MACK released Grāvlejs` photobook Early Works which gathers together photographs taken by him during adolescence.
Margrieta Griestiņa

Margrieta Griestiņa

Margrieta Griestiņa (1991) is a painter, photographer, scenographer, installation and performance artist. She graduated from the Department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia (2017) and has taken part in exhibitions since 2011. Griestiņa is interested in border situations where encounters take place between high culture and mass culture, and between the marginalised world and the world of refined glamour, in her works taking on the form of non-art or kitsch. Using the mix of these various cultures and aesthetics she creates her personal version and commentary on reality, which is told using the camouflages of mass and pop culture. Together with artist Aksels Bruks, Griestiņa makes up the creative association GolfClayderman, staging a variety of cheekily amusing events as a duo.
Aneta Grzeszykowska

Aneta Grzeszykowska

Aneta Grzeszykowska (1974) has graduated from the Graphic Arts Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2014 won Polityka`s Passport Award in The Visual Arts category. Lives and works in Warsaw. The primary medium in which Aneta Grzeszykowska works is photography. However, she treats it instrumentally, as a tool for the realization of advanced, artistic and ontological exercises. The artist is interested in the role photography plays in creating and documenting a personal identity. Therefore, in her film projects or doll sculptures, the human figure acquires the shape and aura of a marionette. One of the main topics of Grzeszykowska`s works is her own identity, with which she plays on many levels: by erasing her own figure from a family collection of photographs (Album, 2005), or by impersonating Cindy Sherman in her classic cycle Untitled Film Stills (2006). Some projects by Grzeszykowska – like the cycle of illusionist portraits of non-existent people (Untitled, 2006) – take advantage of the possibilities offered by digital image manipulation, while others use photography and film in a classic way by emphasizing the performative dimension of the artist`s activities. The motifs which she obsessively returns to in her works are absence, invisibility, disappearing, and the confrontation of body and thought with non-existence.
Laila Halilova

Laila Halilova

Laila Halilova (1976) currently lives in the United Kingdom. She has been practicing black and white analogue photography since 1996, when she began her studies at CCL (The Centre of Creative Learning). Since 2008 she has been working on the photo project Fleeting Moments. It is a documentary, personal work about the environment surrounding the artist, and the people within it. In 2006, the book of Halilova`s works 36 EXP won the Latvian Annual Photography Award as Best Photobook. In 2017, she earned a BA in photography at Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design in London.
Reinis Hofmanis

Reinis Hofmanis

Reinis Hofmanis (1985) is an artist who works in the medium of photography. He studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, Germany (2007) and graduated with MA from the Department of Visual Communication at the Art Academy of Latvia (2012). He has been participating in exhibitions since 2003. The artist`s works are characterised by a socio-anthropologic perspective which is manifested in his interest in the typologisation of various social groups, their models of behaviour, and the environment they have created or affected. The resulting photographs are gathered and collected, with projects transforming into long-term series. Hofmanis won the Archifoto Prize in 2012 and was awarded 2nd place in the Professional competition category of Architecture of the Sony World Photography Awards in 2013. His works have been published in New York Times, Financial Times, Spiegel, Esquire, Bloomberg, Le Monde, The Globe and Mail and The British Journal of Photography, among others.
Natalia Ibáñez Lario

Natalia Ibáñez Lario

Natalia Ibáñez Lario (1980) lives and works in between Mexico City, Barcelona and Madrid. Ibáñez Lario is a self-proclaimed “internet famous” artist who infuses her amplified web persona into her work, conflating web-based performance (in the form of music videos, snapchat posts, GIFs, etc.) with an object-based critique of the very displays of narcissism she projects online. Her works symbolize the pressures young women face to modify their bodies in order to comply with unrealistic, Westernized beauty standards. Ibáñez Lario has a degree in Architecture from the Universidad Internacional de Cataluña UIC (Barcelona) and has also studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London), Central Saint Martins College of Art (London), and the Slade School of Art (London) worked professionally for Rem Koolhaas/OMA (New York). She has exhibited throughout Europe, Latin America and the United States in galleries and Museums like La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami MOCA, North Miami (Miami), Centro Cultural de España CCEMx (Mexico City), Alain Gutharc Gallerie-Nouvelles Vagues-Palais de Tokyo (Paris) among many others.
Irena Kalicka

Irena Kalicka

Irena Kalicka (1986) studied photography at The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School. Her main interests is snapshot and staged photography as well as performance for the camera. Her works were on display at numerous venues in Poland and abroad: Contemporary Art Museum in Wrocław (2018, 2015, 2012), Gdańsk City Gallery (2018), Arsenal Gallery in Poznań (2018), CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (2017, 2013), Bunkier Sztuki in Cracow (2013), MOCAK in Cracow (2016), Profile Foundation in Warsaw (2016, 2014, 2013), Galerii City Surfer Office in Prague (2015), Západná terasa Bratislavského hradu in Bratislava (2011). Lives and works in Cracow, Poland.
Rūta Kalmuka

Rūta Kalmuka

Rūta Kalmuka (1974) has been working with photography since 1992, when she joined Andrejs Grants’ photo studio. Since 1999 she has worked in journalistic media. She participated in the Photojournalism in the Electronic Age: Techniques and Issues seminar in Maastricht in 1999 and the World Press Photo seminar for the Baltic States in 2001-2002. In 2006, she joined the F64 photo agency as a photographer and in 2016 became the agency’s photo editor. Aside from her professional role in media, she works with documentary black and white photography, taking photos of her children, close relatives and friends. Her work has been exhibited in Latvia, as well as abroad - in Lithuania, Russia, France etc. In 2006, her solo exhibition That’s How It Was… ws heldat the Latvian Museum of Photography. Her series Ildze is in the collection of the Latvian Museum of Photography.
Alina Kleitman

Alina Kleitman

Alina Kleitman (1991) is artist currently living and working in Kiev. In her works she explores topics of sexual emancipation, violence and the degradation of modern society. She received her Bachelor`s degree in the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts in the specialty of Monumental Sculpture in 2012 and afterwards studied at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia in the studio of K. Preobrazhensky VideoArt and Installation, and also in the studio of Sergey Bratkov Photography, Sculpture, Video. Kleitman became more known after her participation and winning in the Youth Festival NON STOP Media-V (2010) with her work The Girls Conceived Bad, the same year when she launched her personal gallery At Rose’s. In 2015 artist won the PinchukArtCentre Special Prize for young artists. During year 2017 she has exhibited her videos and sculptures in the in Contemporary Art Center in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev and Paris.
Martin Kohout

Martin Kohout

Czech artist Martin Kohout’s (1984) interest in art is rooted in cinematography. Since 2010 he has been an active contributor to the art scene in Berlin as well as internationally. His creative practice embraces film, sculpture, images, events and publications. He also composes music under the pseudonym TOLE and runs a small publishing house TLTRPreß.
Frank Kolkman

Frank Kolkman

Frank Kolkman (1989) is a Dutch-born critical designer, artist and researcher with a BA in Product Design (ArtEZ Institute of the Arts Arnhem, 2011) and an MA in Design Interactions (Royal College of Art London, 2015). With his interest in unpicking the social-economical, ethical and aesthetic implications of current and near-future technologies, his work spans across different media, ranging from interactive installations and experimental devices to video and photography. In his practice he often collaborates with his partner Juuke Schoorl.
Zofia Krawiec

Zofia Krawiec

Zofia Krawiec (1986) is a Polish writer, art curator and artist. She wrote the book Miłosny Performans (A Performance of Love), in which she wrote on several works of art, created under heavy emotions stemming from the artists` experience of romantic love. She is the initiator of and a leading voice in Polish debate on selfie feminism - a theory describing the phenomenon of young women using new media as tools of empowerment. She can be found at her Instagram account, where she is currently running a feminist project called "Nuerotic Girl": instagram.com/zofia.krawiec/
Kristīne Madjare

Kristīne Madjare

Kristīne Madjare (1987) has studied Photography in Tartu Art College, Estonia and in University of Applied Sciences and Arts located in Hannover, Germany. She has participated in several workshops of International Summer School of Photography (ISSP), Latvia.
Anda Magone

Anda Magone

Anda Magone (née Bankovska; 1971) has taken part in group exhibitions in Berlin, London, Prague, Tartu and elsewhere. She is a member of the Artists` Union of Latvia and her works are in the collection of the Latvian Museum of Photography. In 2008, her exhibition The Garden won for her the Diena Annual Award for Culture, as well as a nomination for the Purvītis Prize. "I consider black and white documentary photography to be my means of expression. I find my subjects in everyday life – family, friends, nature, everyday routines. My most significant series of works is I Think About Myself (2005) – an intimate diary, portraits of me and my daughter in everyday situations. The Garden (2008) is a story about the search for the lost paradise. I Am/I Am Not (2013) – a photographic investigation on the changing identity of adolescents. The series of black and white photographs Seven Summers (2016) is a record of everyday moments following the lives of my daughters. For more than ten years I have been working on a project of double-portraits titled Twins, it is a study of the changes time and life itself effects in us."
Kristina Olleka

Kristina Õllek

Kristina Õllek (1989) is a visual artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. She works in the field of photography, video, and installation, and questions the relations between space, object and image, considering the context of the original and the copy. Her work examines contemporary visual culture, how representation can be mediated and how it influences our perception. She is particularly interested in the format of exhibition making and in the phenomenon of documentation, regarding how its position has changed in the digital age. Kristina Õllek received a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree from the Estonian Academy of Arts (Fine Arts, Photography), as well as completed her studies at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2016) and Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee (2012). She has twice been awarded the Young Artist Prize by the Estonian Academy of Arts (in 2013 and 2016). Since 2013 she is the co-founder and member of the artist-run space Rundum.
Paul Paper

Paul Paper

Paul Paper is an artist and curator working with photography (after photography). He is the editor of Too Good to be Photographed (Lugemik, 2017), a book exploring the intricate relationship between photography and failure through the work of 47 artists. He also co-curated This is It/Now – the first art exhibition that took place on Snapchat. Paul’s publications are held in various collections including the MoMA and Met Museum libraries, Design Museum Denmark, Clark Art Institute, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and others.
Mateusz Sarello

Mateusz Sarello

Mateusz Sarello (1978) born in Warsaw, Poland. Resident of Cite des Arts in Paris in the framework of the City of Paris Grant (2015). The author of “Swell”, a book chosen as a finalist in Pictures of the Year International (2014), which also earned a honourable mention in the Best Photography Book from Central and Eastern Europe 2013-2014 of the European Month of Photography in Bratislava. Received awards and distinctions in numerous competitions: Prix Photo La Quatrieme Image (2014), Center Santa Fe Awards (2014), Lucie Foundation Scholarship (2014), Celeste Prize (2014), FotoVisura Grant (2014), Photolucida Critical Mass (2014), Lens Culture Exposure Awards (2014), Nera di Verzasca Award (2015), Grand Prix Fotofestiwal (2015), PDN Photo Annual (2011). His works were exhibited, among others, in Gowen Contemporary Gallery (Geneva, 2017), GAF Gallery (Hannover, 2015), Third Floor Gallery (Cardiff, 2014), Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe, 2014), during La Quatrieme Photo Fair (Paris, 2014), Cortona On The Move Festival (2014), Copenhagen Photo Festival (2014) and Manifesto Festival (Toulouse, 2014).
Juuke Schoorl

Juuke Schoorl

Juuke Schoorl (1989) graduated from the Royal College of Arts in The Hague (NL) in 2014. With her photography Juuke tries to translate the things around us that we normally take for granted into something visually new and exciting. Her work is usually based on a hands-on process of experimentation. She likes to challenge the physical abilities of her subjects and tries to surprise the audience without the use of digital manipulation.
Floris Schönfeld

Floris Schönfeld

Floris Schönfeld (1982) is an artist born in USA and currently based in Amsterdam. He presents his ideas mostly through the formats of installation, performance and video. The focus of his work in the last years has been the relationship between fiction and belief. Artist has collaborated with different enthusiastic groups that are practicing spiritualism for example voodoo and shamanism, speaking in the Klingon language (the humanoid civilization in USA production movie Star Trek), or participating in live action roll-playing games (LARP), or by using different kind of technologies and experiments trying to communicate and become one with nature. Through multifaceted research projects and installations he constantly tries to find the line between defining his context and being defined by it. Schönfeld has recently shown his works in group shows and screenings at the Amsterdam Film Biennale, the Rencontre Internationales in Paris, the Shanghai Biennale and the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Marie Sjøvold

Marie Sjøvold

Marie Sjøvold (1982) was born in Norway, she works with photography, video and photo books. In her photographic work, she tells universal stories where she often uses experiences from her own life and her own family, but she always plays with the boundaries between reality and fiction. Artist has an intimate and playful approach to existentially serious themes. Her books and exhibitions consist of both staged photographs and photographic documents. Sjøvold works consciously across photographic genres in order to ask questions about the strength of photography as a witness of truth and our perception of reality. Sjøvold has published two photo books with Journal Forlag and four self-published photo books. She has exhibited at numerous venues around the world: Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris, Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen and the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo among others. In 2012 she was awarded the European Photo Exhibition Award. Sjøvold’s work is included in the collections of Fritt Ord (NO), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NO) and the Ministry of Education (NO).
Līga Spunde

Līga Spunde

Līga Spunde (1990) is a visual artist based in Riga, Latvia. She graduated from the Art Academy of Latvia, Visual Communication department in 2016. Along studying she has been participating in various projects and exhibitions in Latvia and internationally. Her main source of inspiration and influence comes from events, relationships and observations of absurd and uncanny in day to day life. Her work often is an extremely subjective retelling of a story that invites the spectator to question the objective and subjective truth. Along using such mediums as photography and video, installation is a fundamental element in bringing the pieces of the story together.
Taavi Suisalu

Taavi Suisalu

Taavi Suisalu (1982) is an Estonian artist working in the contexts of technology, sound and performance activating peripheral spaces for imaginative encounters. His practice is informed by phenomena of contemporary society and its relations to and use of technologies. He has studied sociology and computer sciences at Tartu University, and in 2010 he graduated from Department of Media Design at Tartu Art College and received an MA in 2014 from the Department of New Media at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Diana Tamane

Diana Tamane

Diana Tamane (1986) was born in Riga. She has graduated from Tartu Art College (BA) and Saint- Lukas School of Arts Brussels (MA). In 2015–2016 she attended HISK post-academic program in Ghent (Belgium). She works mainly with photography, video and text, using autobiographical elements – memory, everyday routines and personal events. Her family members are often main characters in her work. Currently Tamane resides between Tartu (Estonia) and Ghent (Belgium).
Margus Tamm

Marguss Tamm

Margus Tamm (1977) lives and works in Tallinn as an artist, designer and cultural critic. He studied graphic arts and interdisciplinary arts in the Estonian Academy of Arts and is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture. His research field is connected to the methods of tactical media and the function of the collective author.
Charlote Thiis-Evensen

Charlotte Thiis-Evensen

Charlotte Thiis-Evensen (1968) has an MA of Literary Science from the University of Oslo and has studied art at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo. As an artist she is working with documentarism in video, photo and installations. Several of her artworks are about how unspoken power structures seriously limit the individual’s freedom of action. Beside production of art she has been working as a journalist at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation for fifteen years both with documentary film and with journalistic programs.
Yves Ullens

Yves Ullens

Yves Ullens (1960) is artist based in Brussels, Belgium. His artistic vocation revealed itself rather late in his life pursuant to the unexpected outcome of a photograph taken during a stay in Turkey. An accidental blur awakened his innate sense of abstraction and plays on light. It was the outcome of a well-defined choice of subject matter, lighting, strict framing and a controlled capture of the image with the camera in motion. This photograph marks the start of Yves Ullens’ quest for personal creativity. Yves Ullens developed his photographic technique that involves free movement of the camera, almost a dance, when he lets himself be guided by his emotions and his imagination. It becomes an unexpected pictorial composition, bright, vibrant and colourful, in many ways akin to a painting, with the brush being replaced by the lens of the camera; the artist takes a deliberately aesthetic and sensorial approach to his works. Each photographic composition features a visual sensibility that is made enhanced by the artist’s perpetual quest for capturing the vital energy of light and of colours, transcending the conventions and the rules of traditional photography.
Elina Vainio

Elina Vainio

Elina Vainio’s (1981) practice as an artist focuses on tracing historical developments of images, ideas, concepts and the forces that shape present-day cultures. She combines various media in her works that include installation, photography, video, sound and poetry. Vainio holds a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, and a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Chelsea College of Art Design, London. Her work has been exhibited in Finland and internationally, most recently in HAM - Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (2018), Titanik Gallery, Turku (2017) and Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie (2017). She is the recipient of a residency fellowship at Artspace Sydney during June-August 2018.
Hannes Wiedemann

Hannes Wiedemann

Hannes Wiedemann (1991) is a Berlin-based photographer and Ostkreuz School of Photography graduate. Besides being published in numerous magazines and two self-published books, his work is regularly exhibited. Recent shows include New Citizens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2017; NUCLEUS, Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, Groningen, 2017; 2016 New Photography II, ALAN, Istanbul, 2017; Human Upgrade, Galerie der Schader-Stiftung / Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, 2016. Using the conceptual framework of the technosphere as a foundation, Hannes Wiedemann`s work explores human physicality in the anthropocene. While Grinders (2016) documents the DIY cyborg community in the United States, his project Bits and Pieces (2017) is a visceral odyssey through contemporary Seoul, the nicknamed ‘world capital of plastic surgery’.
Anna Zett

Anna Zett

Anna Zett is an artist, author and director of films and radio plays who was born in Leipzig and lives in Berlin. Using image, sound, text and performance, Zett addresses the integration of knowledge and emotion through language and movement, often leaving the creative process open for interaction and unplanned development. Her work draws on the history of science and media, post- communist discourse and contemporary conflicts around gender, violence, care, knowledge. The playful confrontation with modernist, masculinist and imperialist symbols has been a recurring motive in her art practice. Zett`s videos have been presented at museums, galleries and festivals, among them Serpentine Gallery Extinction Marathon in London, Whitney Museum New York, CAC Vilnius, National Gallery Prague and Sonic Acts Festival Amsterdam. Since the publication of her first major video works in 2014, Zett has written and directed two experimental radio dramas for the German public radio and has been co-hosting a participatory dance show that toured in European and African cities. She has studied at Humboldt University of Berlin, Middlesex University London and Berlin University of the Arts.
Marta Zgierska

Marta Zgierska

Marta Zgierska (1987) born in Lublin, Poland. She holds MFA in Photography (The Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School), MA in Theatrology and MA in Journalism (Marie Curie- Sklodowska University). In her artwork she deals with the subject of trauma, liminal experiences and working with the body. She brings a personal touch to the motives undertaken, often placing herself in the role of the object of performance. In 2015 she was named one of Lens Culture`s Top 50 Emerging Talents. In 2016 she won one of the most prestigious photography awards - Prix HSBC pour la Photographie and also Daylight Photo Awards, Reminders Photography Stronghold Grant, FotoLeggendo Giovanni Tabo Prize and Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award. In the same year she was nominated for the ING Unseen Talent Award. Her project "Post" has been published as a book by Actes Sud in 2016. It received the PDN Photo Annual Award (2017). Her works were exhibited at Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki, 2017), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (Geneva, 2017), Museum Dr. Guislain (Ghent, 2017), Musee de la Photographie Andre Villers (Mougins, 2016), Esther Woerdehoff Gallery (Paris, 2016), Gowen Contemporary Gallery (Geneva, 2016), Galerie Intervalle (Paris, 2017), Unseen Amsterdam (2017). Her works were presented also during numerous festivals, including Festival Circulation(s) and Athens Photo Festival. Her works can be found in the collection of HSBC Foundation and in many private collections. In 2018 she was nominated for the prestigious Foam Paul Huf Award.